¹Имајући, дакле, оваква обећања, о љубазни! Да очистимо себе од сваке поганштине тела и духа, и да творимо светињу у страху Божијем.

¹Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

²Примите нас, ником не учинисмо нажао, никога не покварисмо, никога не занесосмо.

²Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

³Не говорим на осуђење, јер пре рекох да сте у срцима нашим, да бих с вама и умро и живео.

³I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

⁴Врло слободно говорим к вама, много се хвалим вама, напунио сам се утехе, изобилан сам радошћу поред свих брига наших.

⁴Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

⁵Јер кад дођосмо у Македонију, никакав мир немаше тело наше, него у свему беше у невољи: споља борбе, изнутра страх.

⁵For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

⁶Али Бог, који теши понижене, утеши нас доласком Титовим.

⁶Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁷А не само доласком његовим, него и утехом којом се он утеши за вас казујући вашу жељу, ваше плакање, ваше страдање за мене, тако да се још већма обрадовах.

⁷And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.

⁸Јер ако сам вас и ражалио посланицом, не кајем се, ако се и бејах раскајао: јер видим да она посланица, ако и за мало, ражали вас.

⁸For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season.

⁹Али се сад радујем, не што бисте жалосни, него што се ожалостисте на покајање: јер се ожалостисте по Богу, да од нас ни у чему не штетујете.

⁹Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

¹⁰Јер жалост која је по Богу доноси за спасење покајање, за које се никада не каје; а жалост овог света смрт доноси.

¹⁰For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

¹¹Јер, гле, ово само што се по Богу ожалостисте, колико учини старање међу вама? Какво правдање, какву неповољност, какав страх, какву жељу, какву ревност, какву освету? У свему показасте се да сте чисти у делу.

¹¹For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

¹²Јер ако вам и писах, не овог ради који је скривио, нити оног ради коме је криво учињено, него да се покаже међу вама старање наше за вас пред Богом.

¹²Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.

¹³Зато се утешисмо утехом вашом; а још се већма обрадовасмо радости Титовој, јер ви сви умиристе дух његов.

¹³Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

¹⁴Јер што сам му се за вас похвалио, нисам се посрамио; него како је све истина што говорисмо вама, тако и похвала наша к Титу истинита би.

¹⁴For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

¹⁵И срце је његово пуно љубави к вама кад се опомиње послушања свих вас, како сте га са страхом и дрхтањем примили.

¹⁵And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

¹⁶Радујем се, дакле, што се у свему смем ослонити на вас.

¹⁶I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.